Living on FOOD STAMPS

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Originally Posted by AussiePam

I know that it takes considerable management skills to feed a family on a really tight budget. I also know that people with considerable management skills are often less likely to end up having to live long term on a very tight budget than those who do not have such skills. The journailist in this experiment had stuff to learn, for sure, but he was a professional person - presumably with extensive problem solving ability and a focussed cheery outlook. He wasn't stuck in a grey tunnel of despair without a visible end to it. Sadly, many people living in poverty don't have his resourcefulness or his hope.

Yes, it is a big difference if you do something because you want to and not because you have to. Anything is doable for the short haul, it is the haul without the end in sight that cripples the will.